 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1892 - 1062 σελίδες
...Am. St. Rep. 322. Probable cause is " the existence of snch facts and circumstances as would excite belief in a reasonable mind, acting on the facts within...knowledge of the prosecutor, that the person charged waa guilty of the offense for which he was prosecuted ": Dempsey v. State, 27 Tex. App. 269; 11 Am.... | |
 | 1896 - 1222 σελίδες
...action to recover for personal Injuries, except libel, slander, criminal conversation, or seduction. excite the belief in a reasonable mind, acting on...was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted. Id. p. 24. False imprisonment is the unlawful restraint of a person contrary to his will, either with... | |
 | William Pinckney Fishback - 1896 - 502 σελίδες
...evidence of malice. § 300. Want of probable cause. — Probable cause is the apparent existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief in a reasonable mind that the person charged is guilty. It is essential that the prosecutor shall have entertained an honest... | |
 | 1897 - 1212 σελίδες
...cause." 14 Am. & Eng. Ene. Law, 64. In the same book it Is stated: "Probable cause is the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief...was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted. Such facts and circumstances must not only exist, but the defendant must have believed in the guilt... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1897 - 888 σελίδες
...be vindicated. 22 Town of Thlbodaux vs. Constantlu & Bragard. Probable cause means the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief in a reasonable mind that the plaintiff was guilty of the offence for which he was prosecuted. Rumors are not, but the representation... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - 1898 - 1178 σελίδες
...of should be made to appear. Was there want of probable cause ? Probable cause is the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief...prosecutor, that the person charged was guilty of the offense. Were not the facts and circumstances disclosed in the memorial calculated to excite the belief,... | |
 | 1899 - 1068 σελίδες
...prosecute." Id. § 455. The supreme court in an early case defined probable cause as being "the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief...guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted." Wheeler v. Nesbitt. 24 How. 544. And in the same case the court slated the want of probable cause thus:... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - 1900 - 642 σελίδες
...Supreme Court of the United States, is " the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite belief in a reasonable mind, acting on the facts within...guilty of the crime, for which he was prosecuted." a The want of probable cause cannot be inferred; it must be proven affirmatively and independently... | |
 | 1900 - 1088 σελίδες
...by plaintiff, pp. 549, 551. Malicious prosecution.— Probable cause is the existence of such facts as would excite the belief, in a reasonable mind,...prosecutor, that the person charged was guilty of the crime, pp. 551, 552. Cited with approval and principle applied in Ex parte Morrill. 13 Sawy. 331, 35 Fed.... | |
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the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief, in a reasonable mind, acting on the facts within the knowledge of the prosecutor, that the person charged was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted. 
